The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies - Softcover

Parker, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802777988 ISBN 13: 9780802777980

Verlag: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Parker Matthew

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Críticas:

"Gripping....A compendium of greed, horrible ingenuity, and wickedness, but also a fascinating and thoughtful social history." - William Dalrymple, author of "The Last Mughal" and "Nine Lives" "[A] minutely detailed portrait of one corner of Britain's constantly illuminated empire." - "Booklist "
"A rich, multifaceted account of the greed and slavery bolstering the rise of England's mercantile empire." - "Kirkus "
"Successful both as a scholarly introduction to the topic and as an entertaining narrative, this is recommended for readers of any kind of history." - "Library Journal"
"This is a rousing, fluently written narrative history, full of color, dash, and forceful personalities, but it's also a subtle social portrait of plantation life and governance." - "Publishers Weekly"
"An engaging journey to a mercifully vanished world." - "The Wall Street Journal"

"A tumultuous rollercoaster of a book ... Mr. Parker tells an extraordinary, neglected and shameful story with gusto.""--The Economist " "Gripping....A compendium of greed, horrible ingenuity, and wickedness, but also a fascinating and thoughtful social history." - William Dalrymple, author of "The Last Mughal" and "Nine Lives" "[A] minutely detailed portrait of one corner of Britain's constantly illuminated empire." - "Booklist "
"A rich, multifaceted account of the greed and slavery bolstering the rise of England's mercantile empire." - "Kirkus "
"Successful both as a scholarly introduction to the topic and as an entertaining narrative, this is recommended for readers of any kind of history." - "Library Journal"
"This is a rousing, fluently written narrative history, full of color, dash, and forceful personalities, but it's also a subtle social portrait of plantation life and governance." - "Publishers Weekly"

Reseña del editor:

Traces the rise and fall of forefront Caribbean sugar dynasties, providing coverage of such topics as the British economy's dependence on island colony wealth, the sobering role of slavery in sugar plantation culture and the North American colonial opposition to sugar policy in London. 30,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0802777988
• ISBN 13: 9780802777980
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 446